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Zoom is available to anyone with a valid Northwestern NetID, and its use is intended for the purpose of conducting University-related activities. To get an account and begin using it immediately, visit the Zoom login page, sign in with your NetID and password, and authenticate using Duo MFA. An account is provisioned automatically upon first login.
Copilot is Microsoft’s AI-powered productivity service that uses large language models (LLMs) to help you create content, analyze information, summarize documents, and complete tasks more efficiently.
The University Libraries offers a variety of laser printers, plotters, and scanners.
myHR is Northwestern’s system of record for Human Resources data. Employees and Administrators can access processes and data associated with payroll, benefits, talent acquisition, and compensation.
The Northwestern Public Virtual Private Network (VPN) allows users with Northwestern NetIDs to access University network resources as if they were directly connected to the Northwestern network.Virtual Private Network (VPN) establishes a "secure tunnel" for your computer on the Northwestern network. It provides strong encryption, enables authenticated access to the Northwestern network from external and untrusted environments, and proxies your network traffic so it appears to originate from within the Northwestern network.
EndNote is a software program designed to store and manipulate bibliographic information.
Northwestern offers 1Password, a secure password manager that helps you store, manage, and share passwords, passkeys, and other sensitive information.
NUworkspace offers users a virtual Windows desktop service that provides access to a suite of many software applications to faculty, students, and staff, including access to software packages that may not be readily available on their desktop/laptop computers.
Firewall services are available to IT units that want to protect departmental user networks from external threats. These can be installed to protect server or client networks.
Firewalls represent one component of a strategy to combat malicious activities and assaults on computing resources and network-accessible information. Other components include antivirus software and intrusion detection software.
Northwestern has agreements with Amazon Web Services, Google, and Microsoft Azure, to provide discounted cloud hosting options for Northwestern faculty and staff.
OneDrive offers secure, cloud-based storage that lets you seamlessly collaborate and access files from anywhere in the world, at any time.
The Graduate Student Progress (GSP) allows programs to track graduate student progress and view many elements of graduate student activity in one place.
Directory services help provide people and systems with the ability to look up information about people based on various criteria from things as simple as their name to their Northwestern school affiliation, degree programs, etc. Directory Services include the Northwestern online directory, the ADS Active Directory forest, the LDAP directory, and various others.
iBuyNU is a web-based ordering tool integrated into NUFinancials. It provides departments and schools with a streamlined, cost effective way to order from University Preferred Vendors.
CAESAR is Northwestern’s system of record for student data. Students, faculty, advisers, parents, guardians, and staff use CAESAR to manage classes and grades, pay bills, view financial aid, process admissions, and maintain demographic data.
REDCap (Research Education Data Capture) is a web-based application that Feinberg uses for managing online surveys and databases.
NUFinancials is the centerpiece of the University’s financial management systems. It supports the accounting and budgeting functions that feed the University’s general ledger, and works with related reporting, facilities management, purchasing, sponsored research, financial forecasting, and annual budgeting systems.
ArcGIS is a geographic information systems (GIS) ecosystem from Esri used for mapping, spatial analytics, and data.
This is the main web server cluster that serves up content for www.northwestern.edu and many subdomains of www.northwestern.edu.
BioRender is an online, cloud-based platform that allows researchers to create scientific figures. Create and customize membranes, cell layers, and DNA in seconds with drawing tools. Visualize and customize 3D protein structures with our PDB integration or upload your own protein data file. Easily auto-align to a grid or other objects for a clean and professional look.
The SAS System is an integrated suite of software with modularly designed tools for data warehousing, EIS, OLAP, rapid application development, and applied analysis.
Northwestern University's agreement with Adobe offers the full Adobe Creative Cloud software suite for use by eligible faculty and staff.
In partnership with Smartsheet, Inc., Northwestern provides a cloud-based project management tool and business workflow tool.
NetID services take information from the HR or student system and create unified Northwestern credentials (NetIDs) that are then connected with information about each individual. NetIDs are then used as the primary way for people to interact with IT services. Other types of NetIDs can be created as well for specific people, organizations, or IT system purposes.